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The next generation of telescopes such as the SKA and the Rubin Observatory will produce enormous data sets, requiring automated anomaly detection to enable scientific discovery. Here, we present an overview and friendly user guide to the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-26 Michelle Lochner , Bruce A. Bassett

This paper provides an overview of three notable approaches for detecting anomalies in spatio-temporal data. The three review methods are selected from the framework of multivariate statistical process control (SPC), scan statistics, and…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-09-19 Ji Chen

The prevalence of AI-generated imagery has raised concerns about the authenticity of astronomical images, especially with advanced text-to-image models like Stable Diffusion producing highly realistic synthetic samples. Existing detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Mohammed Talha Alam , Raza Imam , Mohsen Guizani , Fakhri Karray

Anomaly detectors address the difficult problem of detecting automatically exceptions in an arbitrary background image. Detection methods have been proposed by the thousands because each problem requires a different background model. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Axel Davy , Thibaud Ehret , Jean-Michel Morel , Mauricio Delbracio

Anomaly detection is concerned with identifying data patterns that deviate remarkably from the expected behaviour. This is an important research problem, due to its broad set of application domains, from data analysis to e-health,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-23 L. Erhan , M. Ndubuaku , M. Di Mauro , W. Song , M. Chen , G. Fortino , O. Bagdasar , A. Liotta

Anomaly detecting as an important technical in cloud computing is applied to support smooth running of the cloud platform. Traditional detecting methods based on statistic, analysis, etc. lead to the high false-alarm rate due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Jing Zhang

Detecting anomalous faces has important applications. For example, a system might tell when a train driver is incapacitated by a medical event, and assist in adopting a safe recovery strategy. These applications are demanding, because they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Anand Bhattad , Jason Rock , David Forsyth

Many anomaly detection approaches, especially deep learning methods, have been recently developed to identify abnormal image morphology by only employing normal images during training. Unfortunately, many prior anomaly detection methods…

Several anomaly detection and classification methods rely on large amounts of non-anomalous or "normal" samples under the assump- tion that anomalous data is typically harder to acquire. This hypothesis becomes questionable in Few-Shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Aymane Abdali , Bartosz Boguslawski , Lucas Drumetz , Vincent Gripon

Astronomical outliers, such as unusual, rare or unknown types of astronomical objects or phenomena, constantly lead to the discovery of genuinely unforeseen knowledge in astronomy. More unpredictable outliers will be uncovered in principle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Yang Han , Zhiqiang Zou , Nan Li , Yanli Chen

We present an analysis of anomaly detection for machine learning redshift estimation. Anomaly detection allows the removal of poor training examples, which can adversely influence redshift estimates. Anomalous training examples may be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-16 Ben Hoyle , Markus Michael Rau , Kerstin Paech , Christopher Bonnett , Stella Seitz , Jochen Weller

Estimating the true background in an astronomical image is fundamental to detecting faint sources. In a typical low-photon count astronomical image, such as in the far and near-ultraviolet wavelength range, conventional methods relying on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-27 Pushpak Pandey , Kanak Saha

Anomaly detection in complex domains poses significant challenges due to the need for extensive labeled data and the inherently imbalanced nature of anomalous versus benign samples. Graph-based machine learning models have emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yifan Wei , Anwar Said , Waseem Abbas , Xenofon Koutsoukos

Anomaly detection aims at identifying data points that show systematic deviations from the majority of data in an unlabeled dataset. A common assumption is that clean training data (free of anomalies) is available, which is often violated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Chen Qiu , Aodong Li , Marius Kloft , Maja Rudolph , Stephan Mandt

Image-based systems have gained popularity owing to their capacity to provide rich manufacturing status information, low implementation costs and high acquisition rates. However, the complexity of the image background and various anomaly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-06 Hao Xu , Juan Du , Andi Wang , YingCong Chen

Human actions that do not conform to usual behavior are considered as anomalous and such actors are called anomalous entities. Detection of anomalous entities using visual data is a challenging problem in computer vision. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Hamza Riaz , Muhammad Uzair , Habib Ullah

The problem of anomaly detection in astronomical surveys is becoming increasingly important as data sets grow in size. We present the results of an unsupervised anomaly detection method using a Wasserstein generative adversarial network…

The goal of anomaly detection is to identify anomalous samples from normal ones. In this paper, a small number of anomalies are assumed to be available at the training stage, but they are assumed to be collected only from several anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Bowen Tian , Qinliang Su , Jian Yin

Anomalies can be defined as any non-random structure which deviates from normality. Anomaly detection methods reported in the literature are numerous and diverse, as what is considered anomalous usually varies depending on particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Matías Tailanian , Pablo Musé , Álvaro Pardo

Every field of Science is undergoing unprecedented changes in the discovery process, and Astronomy has been a main player in this transition since the beginning. The ongoing and future large and complex multi-messenger sky surveys impose a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Maurizio D'Addona , Giuseppe Riccio , Stefano Cavuoti , Crescenzo Tortora , Massimo Brescia